Food Books

New and Published Books

1. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Food and Public Health

   Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

   Edited by Wendy Wills, Alizon Draper, Ulla Gustafsson

   This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today’s society. Contributors highlight the lack of global regulation in the food supply chain and explore the common tendency to leave regulation to markets and to individual consumer...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Eating Disorders and Mindfulness

   Exploring Alternative Approaches to Treatment

   Edited by Leah DeSole

   This book presents an overview of the latest psychological knowledge about the application of mindfulness-based interventions in the field of eating disorders. Increasingly, these interventions are used in therapeutic practice. They encourage clients to process their experience fully, as it arises,...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies

   Edited by Ken Albala

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Fat

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Shortcuts

   In contemporary western societies the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized and...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Exercise and Eating Disorders

   An Ethical and Legal Analysis

   By Simona Giordano

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels. This is also the first book to examine this issue from...

   Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
7. Foodies

   Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape

   By Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   This important new cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service....

   Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge
8. Diets and Dieting

   A Cultural Encyclopedia

   By Sander L. Gilman

   Diets and dieting have concerned—and sometimes obsessed—human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony...

   Published May 19th 2009 by Routledge
9. Men and the War on Obesity

   A Sociological Study

   By Lee F. Monaghan

   Is obesity really a public health problem and what does the construction of obesity as a health problem mean for men? According to official statistics, the majority of men in nations such as England and the USA are overweight or obese. Public health officials, researchers, governments and various...

   Published March 30th 2008 by Routledge
10. Fair Trade

    The Challenges of Transforming Globalization

    Edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray, John Wilkinson

    This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South...

    Published May 9th 2007 by Routledge